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She didn't expect to fall for her best friend.He was always waiting to catch her.

Corinne Bennett lives in the moment. Whether she's skydiving out of an airplane, or setting off on the road to anywhere, she's ready to dive into the next adventure. That is, if best friend and always-by-the-book Nicholas Kelley doesn't put his foot down on her wild stunts first.

When Corinne gives in to her growing feelings for Nicholas the summer before their freshman year of college, she takes the ultimate risk, making this one adventure he has longed to explore with her.

But the moment they take that irrevocable leap, a shocking revelation blindsides Corinne, exposing her vulnerabilities, baring her fears, and shattering her beliefs about love. With their future—and more importantly, their friendship—now clouded in doubt, she must decide if love is really worth the risk.

Because when it comes to love, you never stop falling.

I might be spoiling a bit here, but I feel like it’s important to share upfront, as I don’t think I would have been able to read this book had I not seen a warning at the bottom of someone else’s review. There is cheating in this book. If you are, like me, particularly sensitive to cheating, especially parental cheating, be careful going in.

Now, moving on to business.

The story of Nick and Corinne, best friends from birth, is told from dual POV chapters that jump back and forth in time. The book opens with a prologue in “present” time (which we learn isn’t actually present time, especially with IM style), then hops back six years to just after high school graduation. The two friends just about give into that promise of something more…before Corinne’s life as she knows it ends in one spectacular shitstorm. We skim forward a year and then jump forward again to Corinne and Nick finally reuniting, but with six years of “moving on” between them.

Nick’s POV chapters were personally easier to read. I loved how devoted he was to Corinne, even after years of being apart. Corinne was harder to read. That being said, I did relate to her in certain ways that make me feel equal parts vindicated and guilty.

The best part for me was the chemistry between Nick and Corinne. When those two gave in to what was very clearly meant to be… WOW. I had goosebumps. It was seriously frustrating to read about them growing apart. I wanted to shake them both: Nick for being a coward and Corinne for being insensitive and…well…also a coward. I wanted to smack any and all people who tried to come between them. THIS BOOK WAS FILLED WITH FRUSTRATION. You need a lot of patience with these two, I can tell you that.

That’s probably one of the things that didn’t make this great for me. Maybe I wasn’t in the best frame of mind or have read too many contemporaries recently, but I felt myself getting impatient from time to time and skimming a little. It probably didn’t help that I was also in bed with a cold so found it hard to concentrate some of the time. On the one hand, Drew did a good job of building tension, developing the characters and showing how complicated their lives had become; on the other, I can’t lie and say I was hooked the whole way through.

I also think I wanted more from the ending. After some solidly skin-tingling scenes right from the beginning, the end was a little anti-climactic. Come on! This is NA! Give us a bit more to work with! Especially after all that angst…

Overall, it was a solid, well-written NA romance, with a cast of characters complex enough that they didn’t just come out of the secondary character cookie cutter collection. The stars of the story clearly meet the Meant To Be criteria, and anything else was just biding time (as harsh as that sounds). Never Stop Falling is a great debut for Ashley Drew, who can write me makeout sessions any day. 😉

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